Just tried beta O.8. Think the kernel in this instance does not play nice with my hardware. When I use graphical install it just goes runlevel 6 and reboots. When I go for the text installer I have no use of the usb keyboard.

Compared to wicd, it's more cumbersome with the VL install. What I've had to do is select the wireless connection and then edit the connection to provide the password. It's not asking when I do the initial selection. I was dinking around with Mint 14 XFCE and I didn't have to go through that process. When I selected the wireless router, it immediately asked for a password.

Is there a specific reason why we're looking to get away from wicd and use network manager?

NM suports a much more wide connection schemes. It can discover network interfaces (wicd requires you to input the interface name when it is something different than eth0, which is a FAQ in this forum).I dont get the behaivor you describe here, maybe this is a bug in our NM package that can be fixed.

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NM suports a much more wide connection schemes. It can discover network interfaces (wicd requires you to input the interface name when it is something different than eth0, which is a FAQ in this forum).I dont get the behaivor you describe here, maybe this is a bug in our NM package that can be fixed.

OK. Just curious.

Yes, there does seem to be a bug in the initial setup, at least for wireless.